Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-07-02

Japanese and Italian dens where ragr,,ckers. hayx
occasionally risk few pennies on the csT; q, de-
Much the same order or mendacity roats about
concerning
THE OPIUM "JoTSrS" OF INV rosx.
My Imagination became SO arei by the voluptu.
ous Ingenious and taking pictures Of New YORK
society women, In their luxurious orium Joints
that made tour OF all the opium places IN New
fWk once accompanied by celebrated authority
On On. .ne opium habit, and a man who had largo
prsctlce among the slaves OF the drug. named pr
Ssrrish. We had one O: the shrtwdeSr dete-Iiyes
rom tne central ONCE with US What my two
coapdmeas did not know about the opium habit
In New York was not worth knowing We spent
lhree nights ON the tour II was a continual sue
ceSsloh "a revolving scenes nightmare OF stiiling
odofS ana an unbroSen series oI CHASTITY, unpleas-
ant pictures II was an experience I shall never
forget, Tor II hai In Il NOR squalor misery ami
shs ., 'Iaa ever expect 10 see again. We
schiCheu ia VAN Tor the magnificent dives" up-
h0iStered with Oriental magnificence furnished
win SUPERB ShlneSA divans lighted by grotesqus
am oeauulni lamps made soft and n0iseless by
itch rugs dnd managed by soft-footed and moon-
eyed CelesualS about which so much has ba<a
willtn, ann Mhere II Is said the society ladies "
New norA eNe themselves over TO the destinations
or the awful drug.
REvoLTING PICTURE
Inc most tpretentiouS place that saw during
the tour was In the sub-cellar OF a sixth-avenus
house. The Moor was carpeted. and that is why
IL 5000 OUT IN such striking magnincence and
spendor. as compared with the other n,a.es qbe
couches were rough wooden hunks the selling
low, begrfmed, and sooty and the lack AZ rlesnlL
ness some,nlhg awful There were seven or eight
women lying around on the hunks when we ar.
rived and four or five men were tntersrersed nro
miscuously among them. IL was about \ oclork
In the morning. single light burned In the
center or the square room and the women iay
In the hunks around the four sides An or fheY,
had their gowns looserfed at the throat. aud
they lay In positions OF absolute languor ana
indifference some had rolled over on their hacks.
some lay heavily on their faces, and others were
twisted up awkwardly In corners. Only TWO az
them were what might hn called lprenf la IA
They wore the flash lewelry and gaudv Clothes n
women OF the town. IL was said that this piase
had the best class OF smokers or any In New York
aud we went back in the arternoon-thr detectiV.
and Ito have look at more OF them. We found
women who were better dressed than the ONES Wa
saw that night, and among them WAS a rather
well-known actress and two women Who drive
magnificent horses and make a great show about
town. They were all half deadened bt the drur
and as the Chinaman took his light around aud
flashed II In their faces few OF them opened
their eyes He evidently considered them great
swells, and even the detective was more or less
impressed by the gorgeous attire OF several "
the devotees or the habit, but IL needed only a
glance 10 show that not woman among them
had the faintest right TO the Title lady nor the
least claim 10 respectabillty.
THE MORPHINE cLURs
nour1shed for time in the newspapers I not
only never saw one nor heard OF the fact OF their
existence In New York, but fail TO see any par
ticular reason why there should be "A morphine
cub In New York. The stories that are told about
these magnificent places where women cali sew
eral times day 10 have morphine administered
10 them Dy expert physicians have less reason for
existence In the newspapers than half the other
absurd stories by which the names OF New York
women nave been dragged into print and into the
mud at the same time. There are undoubtedly
many Woinen-and men, too, for that matter
who Indulge IN morphine. No man OF the world Is
ignorant OF the causes or much OF the vivacity
ana lie That appears spasmodlcally in the eyes OF
men and women whose vitality has been slapped
by many indulgencies, and who brighten up and
SINK INTO melancholy again at short and abrupt
Intervals There Is not half as much mystery
about THIS sort OF thing as the women themselves
perhaps Imagine. But when IT, comes 10 regu-
larry appointed palaces where women go 10 take
morphine. IL Is pushing the limit a little too far.
New York wonderland New York ladies too Tor
that matter-have enough sins aud indlscretions
and Wild escalades 20 answer Tor without saddllng
on them the odlun or establish regal and mag
nificent clubs and palaces Tor the qualification OF
lheir curious passions. They are apt 10 oe gay IL
the opportunity Oilers Let At go al that
BLAKELY Hall.